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Used AI to Turn an Intel Analysis Book Into a System That Uncovers Overlooked Information from the Epstein Files

This took a hot second, but I finally mapped out the The Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals by Godfrey Garner and Patrick McGlynn, which is a standard manual for intelligence analysists. This is significant because now I can use it, both for educationa…

The Hidden Cost of AI’s "Output" & The Call for Cognitive Craftsmanship

As someone who's knee-deep building AI tools, I'm absolutely captivated by the potential. But that excitement is shadowed by a growing unease. It's a feeling that the anti-AI backlash, which started with understandable fears about jobs and …

AI Isn’t Useless. It Just Needs to Be Wielded Properly

Here's something cool that I did recently with AI. I took Chase Hughes' work on psychological persuasion. I organized it into an interactive knowledge graph where I broke the information down into discrete logical parts, all centered on T…

Our Real War Isn’t Left vs. Right. It’s About What it Means to be Human in the Wake of a Technological Singularity

Our war isn't left or right. It's not a foreign power or some terrorist group. It's a battle over our sense of what it means to be human as we further divorce ourselves from reality and everything we've come to know about living i…

AI Will Create New Kinds of Stories We’ve Never Experienced

After writing for over a decade and developing AI writing applications for five years, I've come to realize something: If stories are the compilation of parts that form meaning, and if AI can help us see the relationships between those parts …

AI is NOT Artificial Consciousness: Let’s Talk Real-World Impacts, Not Terminator Scenarios

While AI is paradigm-shifting, it doesn't mean artificial consciousness is imminent. There's no clear path to it with current technology. So, instead of getting in a frenzy over fantastical terminator scenarios all the time, we should con…

Are we stuck in Plato’s Cave with our entertainment, sacrificing great stories for efficiency? An interesting take on where we are & where we’re headed With AI Advances

I often wonder if our current entertainment industry is limiting our abilities to tell great stories in the name of efficiency and financial safety. Are we dwelling in a kind of "Plato's Cave" without even realizing it? Here's a…

Beyond the Patterns: AI, Consciousness, and the Search for Genuine Creativity

If you're really engaged with AI today, then you're probably thinking a lot about consciousness and creativity. What are they, and where do they emerge from? Well, it looks like we have an answer to these! Sike. We're nowhere close to…

Creative Automata: How I Built a Complex World from a Simple Synopsis Without Context Windows, Hallucinations, or Inconsistencies Using AI Mind-Mapping

I'm usually not one to build elaborate fantasy worlds. But a recent project needed one, so I turned to AI – specifically, a mind-mapping app my brother and I developed. I knew the app was cool, but I was blown away when I built an entire univ…